Community group picks up thousands of cigarette butts at annual event
A group of volunteers, many colourfully dressed, picked up more than 20,000 cigarette butts from a Vancouver park on Saturday. Evan Cronmiller searches for cigarette butts in Granview Park in Vancouver on May 4, 2019. A volunteer with a Vancouver cigarette butt clean-up group. Alexandria Weideman says she would like to see better infrastructure in Vancouver to help smokers properly collect and recycle their cigarette butts. "They say they would be happy to take care of their cigarette butts if they were offered a penny per butt," she said.
Source: CBC News May 05, 2019 02:15 UTC
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